? 360-degree panoramic views. On a clear day, visibility will be 100 miles in all directions.

? Expected to bring 100,000 visitors a year to the region beginning March 2007.

? Only observatory-bridge in North America; one of only three such bridges in the world (the other two are in Thailand and Slovakia).

? Part of a two-in-one destination together with historic Fort Knox.

? An elevator holding up to eight passengers will carry visitors from the base of the western pylon to the top of the observatory.

? In collaboration with Maine DOT and Cianbro-Reed & Reed LLC, Figg is engineer of record for the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay and 50 percent engineer of record for the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston.

? First cable-stay bridge in Maine.

? Only the second bridge in the world to use Figg’s patented cradle stay system, which provides a continuous strand of stainless steel sheathing from the bridge deck, through the cradle on the pylon and back down to the bridge deck.

? For the first time in bridge design, an innovative nitrogen gas protection and monitoring system will be used to provide an enclosed environment of pressurized inert gas around each cable stay, eliminating the effects of moisture or other potentially corrosive elements.

? The 288 pilings that support the Verona Island tower add up to a total length of 3.9 miles.

? Three hundred thirty-one miles of epoxy-coated strand make up the cable (roughly the distance from Portland to Fort Knox).